Ella,
You must feel soooo good that your husband gets it and can share that with others.
That kind of straight talk mano y mano is exactly what my h needs to hear. The smallest efforts, no matter how few or far between were monumental to him and yet my suffering, minute by minute and year by year barely registered.
And they cannot hear this from us….we are the enemy. I don’t think they can hear it as a human emotion either because they don’t have our emotions. It seems my h can only hear it in terms of HIS hurt feelings and then I try to switch it around to how I might feel. Once I do that though, he usually can’t relate anymore. That is why we cannot be our partners therapist or accountability partner….we are not REAL.
Debora